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A comment on United States Transitions To A 'First-Inventor-To-File' Patent System. Parent comment

Re:United States Transitions To A 'First-Inventor-To-File' P... by gknoy on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @12:28PM (#5369431)
What happens when the patents are invented in isolation? Is one considered "derived from" the other, despite no information passing between them?
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Re:United States Transitions To A 'First-Inventor-To-File' P... by jmatthew3 on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @12:58PM (#5369601)
If two inventions are invented in isolation, then one is not derived from the other.
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